Warehousing

I visited, I think the most biggest and impressive temperature controlled warehouses that the UK has to offer.   The first warehouse had a total capacity of 197 000 pallets and increasing. The second site visited holds 41 500 frozen but they have other sites around UK. Third – probably the largest frozen logistics company in UK, capacity of 365 000 pallets across 12 stores. And fourth was 160 000 pallets on the site.   The capacity of these warehouses were the most impressive and the volume that actually gets moved in/out, it was just WOW !!   There were many highlights in visiting these stores such as the energy efficiency initiatives, most the product is handled with ride on pallet jacks instead of forklift trucks as opposed to here in S.A – this is actually a huge mind set change for me, the picking abilities and purpose built infrastructure to handle 1600 sku’s is just mind-blowing. In all the stores the primary mobile equipment supplier is Storax so we were happy to see we are following global industry leaders in this category, very few maintenance or breakdown issues on the system – very similar to what we have here in S.A. A lot of these stores aim to offer a full “cradle to grave” solution which is very convenient to the customer and beneficial to the organization.                       We would also just like to thank Barpro/STORAX for arranging the visit, hosting us and for commuting us around, there was a wealth of information shared which we could probably never place a value on, it was truly a mind blowing trip with just so much of information to absorb and ideas to be transformed, on behalf of Etlin we would just like to convey our heartfelt gratitude for everything.     Christopher Nulliah – Logistics Director   [gravityform id=”10″ title=”true” description=”true”]